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one of my great honors -- i count kosovo, i count bosnia at least 40 times. your haloes and getting in the humvees. the mic went off? you must not have liked what i said. there we go. [applause] before ii was saying was so rudely silenced. it has been agreat honor to see so many of you. to see them perform in harm's way. i have seen them in afghanistan and iraq 22 times and an equal number of times in the balkans. i've watched you. it is incredible. when i flew in -- i was up in the cockpit and said, how many of you guys, is this your first tour? including the loadmaster. the second tour -- one. third tour, one. fourth tour, three. fifth tour -- three. we'd never asked a generation of warriors to be deployed into some god-awful circumstances time and time and time again. so it is my honor to stand before you and say -- the entire country owes you -- only 1% have these wearde fought recently. -- wars recently. when your service ends our obligation begins. some of you heard me say, we have a lot of obligations as a nation but only one truly sacred obligation. t
one of my great honors -- i count kosovo, i count bosnia at least 40 times. your haloes and getting in the humvees. the mic went off? you must not have liked what i said. there we go. [applause] before ii was saying was so rudely silenced. it has been agreat honor to see so many of you. to see them perform in harm's way. i have seen them in afghanistan and iraq 22 times and an equal number of times in the balkans. i've watched you. it is incredible. when i flew in -- i was up in the cockpit and...
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looked at 20 post conflict reconstruction efforts, peacekeeping and peace enforcement efforts, bosnia, kosovo, somalia, iraq, afghanistan, mostly smaller un ones in other places. and while most of them were deployed in the first place. and why they produce more democratization and freedom house wars to rank them. did they produce more, better government and use world bank indices the government effectiveness index enrage every government in the world, did the economy expand and imf figures, and a lot of the citizens, use the un development index which looks at both levels of income but also education and health and other criteria. in democratization afghanistan didn't pass the peace test and 16 of 20 cases did. that was definitely a failure. in democratization was in the middle in terms of how much was democratized and improved, freedom house score by 15%. in government effectiveness, interestingly and counter distinction to everything we hear about it ranks second of the twenty countries, it had the second-highest improvement. it improved was the second-highest. per-capita gdp again was seco
looked at 20 post conflict reconstruction efforts, peacekeeping and peace enforcement efforts, bosnia, kosovo, somalia, iraq, afghanistan, mostly smaller un ones in other places. and while most of them were deployed in the first place. and why they produce more democratization and freedom house wars to rank them. did they produce more, better government and use world bank indices the government effectiveness index enrage every government in the world, did the economy expand and imf figures, and...
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which i think guarded right in bosnia and cause a vote, when they went in -- got it right in bosnia and kosovo, when they went in and did what they did, they did not turn around and leave. that is a model that we need to think about. the bush administration in its early years got it wrong. now the obama administration is getting it wrong with its animus against nation-building. we have to do some nation- building. this is not do gooding. this is for our own security. i'm a dad, too. i'm concerned about education, too. i'm concerned about our domestic problems, but the defense budget is not in bankrupting us. we are spending less than 4% of our gdp on defense, half the level we were spending in the cold war. we can afford a strong defense. in fact, we cannot afford to live without a strong defense. we need to have a strong america abroad. at the same time, obviously, we need to deal with our domestic problems. but we do not have to trade one for the other. host: 8 twitter message responding to the other view were writing about molly. this one says that the french, right or wrong, are invalid be
which i think guarded right in bosnia and cause a vote, when they went in -- got it right in bosnia and kosovo, when they went in and did what they did, they did not turn around and leave. that is a model that we need to think about. the bush administration in its early years got it wrong. now the obama administration is getting it wrong with its animus against nation-building. we have to do some nation- building. this is not do gooding. this is for our own security. i'm a dad, too. i'm...
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reconstruction efforts, both peacekeeping and peace enforcement efforts, the big american ones -- bosnia, kosovo, somalia, haiti, iraq, afghanistan -- and the mostly smaller u.n. ones in a dozen or more other places. so we looked at 20 of them. and we evaluated them on a number of criteria. one was did they produce peace which was, after all, why most of them were deployed in the first place. but also, did they produce more democratization, and we used freedomhouse scores to rank them. did they produce more, better government? we used world bank indices as a government effectiveness index. they rate every government in the world every year. did the economy expand? again, just world bank and imf figurings. and -- figures. and did a lot of the citizens -- the lot of the citizens improve. and there we used the u.n. dp's human development index which looks at both levels of income, but also at education and health and other criteria. in democratization, afghanistan didn't pass the peace test, and 16 of the 20 cases did, so that's definitely failure. in democratization it was about in the middle in t
reconstruction efforts, both peacekeeping and peace enforcement efforts, the big american ones -- bosnia, kosovo, somalia, haiti, iraq, afghanistan -- and the mostly smaller u.n. ones in a dozen or more other places. so we looked at 20 of them. and we evaluated them on a number of criteria. one was did they produce peace which was, after all, why most of them were deployed in the first place. but also, did they produce more democratization, and we used freedomhouse scores to rank them. did they...
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supported president clinton, when, against the will of the congress, he did what was needed to be done in kosovo and bosnia and so forth. in this case, i think the president has behaved in that tradition. >> i would argue the constitution doesn't have an exception -- that when you are having tough times, the constitution says that you just go ahead and do it. after vietnam, you were quite critical of the bombing in cambodia because you felt that it was not authorized by congress. has your opinion changed about the bombing in cambodia? how is cambodia different from libya? >> my attitude has not changed about vietnam itself. >> what about cambodia? >> it was the extension of a war prosecuted without the involvement of congress after a number of years. that is very different. >> length of time, but similar circumstances. and obama campaign and authorized by congress. it is not this kind of latitude to sometimes go to war and to sometimes not go to war. i thought barack obama was really explicit. that is what i like about him, quite frankly. i like his forthrightness when he ran for office and said
supported president clinton, when, against the will of the congress, he did what was needed to be done in kosovo and bosnia and so forth. in this case, i think the president has behaved in that tradition. >> i would argue the constitution doesn't have an exception -- that when you are having tough times, the constitution says that you just go ahead and do it. after vietnam, you were quite critical of the bombing in cambodia because you felt that it was not authorized by congress. has your...